When you are in the admin is the time and date correctly shown in the header?
When you look at admin->version
Is the "Server Date" and "Database Date" the same as each other?
and are they correct?
This is leftover from the previous "Time Zone Offset" mod. It does nothing. It can stay there without affecting anything.
This converts the system php date() (which has to be correct first) into a form that is used to set the mysql time zone.
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